Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
–George Eliot

Good friends must not always be together; It is the feeling of oneness when distant That proves a lasting friendship.
–Susan P. Schultz

Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
–Oliver Wendell Holmes

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief
–Marcus Tullius Cicero

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
–Joseph Addison

I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
–Anais Nin

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
–Francis Marion Crawford

A simple friend thinks the friendship over when you have an argument. A real friend knows that it’s not a friendship until after you’ve had a fight
–Unknown

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
–Mencius

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life without friendship is like the sky without sun.
–Anonymous

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship–never
–Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship is a single soul living in two bodies.
–Aristotle

A new friendship is like an unripened fruit – it may become either an orange or a lemon
–Emma Stacey

Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
–Eleanor Roosevelt